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- - - - - - + <_description> -This program draws a simulation of a sonar screen. Written by -default, it displays a random assortment of ``bogies'' on the screen, -but if compiled properly, it can ping (pun intended) your local -network, and actually plot the proximity of the other hosts on your -network to you. It would be easy to make it monitor other sources of -data, too. (Processes? Active network connections? CPU usage per -user?) Written by Stephen Martin. +This draws a sonar screen that pings (get it?) the hosts on +your local network, and plots their distance (response time) from you. +The three rings represent ping times of approximately 2.5, 70 and 2,000 +milliseconds respectively. + +Alternately, it can run a simulation that doesn't involve hosts. + +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping#History + +Written by Jamie Zawinski and Stephen Martin; 1998.